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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society is an academic publication providing coverage and analysis of history.

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John Milton Hay's Literary Influence
America's burgeoning growth following the Civil War changed people's lives in countless ways as the nation embraced a new and promising future....
4/1/06 by Stevenson, James D Jr Stevenson, James D Jr Stevenson · More from publication
Editor's Page, The
This newest issue of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society has offerings from and for people with a variety of interests in Illinois...
4/1/06 · More from publication
Chicago Architecture
Chicago Architecture North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs, 1890 - 1940. By Stuart Cohen and Susan Benjamin. (New York: Acanthus...
4/1/06 by Sokol, David M · More from publication
Chicago in the Nineteenth Century
Chicago in the Nineteenth Century From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929. By Joseph C. Bigott....
4/1/06 by Keating, Ann Durkin · More from publication
"Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": The Parallel Views of Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald on the Road to Equality
The story of Booker T. Washington is well known. Born near Roanoke, Virginia, in 1856 to an enslaved mother and an unidentified white man who had his...
4/1/06 by Aamidor, Abraham · More from publication
Race, Class, and Chicago's Past
Race, Class, and Chicago's Past Chicago. By Jane Byrne. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2004 reprint. Pp. 385, photos, bib., index. Paper,...
4/1/06 by Keating, Ann Durkin · More from publication